BOOK BLAST - THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED - SKIN BY K.C. FINN

Thirteen-year-old Cherie starts her day on
April 3rd like any other Saturday. Shopping, fun and friends are on the agenda,
with only one slight alteration:

April 3rd is the day that the end of the
world arrives.

Mysterious creatures known only as the
Skins have been lurking in remote parts of the countryside, and April 3rd is
the day that the Skins arrive in the big city for all to see. What follows is a
horrifying discovery of what the creatures really are, and what that means for
the future of the human race. Cherie is caught in the middle of the apocalypse
with one mission in mind: to help her horrifyingly injured best friend find
help. Her journey takes her to dark and gruesome places, where isolation, panic
and death await.

Cherie will have to find strength within
her fears to survive The Day The World Ended.

The much-anticipated horror series debut of
Amazon bestselling author K.C. Finn has arrived. The Day The World Ended is a
young adult horror novella, and the exciting prequel to full novel The Skin
Revolt, releasing August 2015. Recommended for readers aged fourteen and above
due to tense scenes, gore and violence.

To my distress, the news was on the wall-mounted TV here
too, and it seemed now that the simultaneous sightings in Brecon and
Pembrokeshire were not the only ones to have happened. This time, the report
was focusing on a little town that I vaguely recognised, where a long, lumpy
thing was lying in the middle of the road, covered by a sheet. Cariad had her
back to the telly and she was totally engrossed in her phone. I’m not sure I
could have alerted her to what was on the screen if I’d wanted to, for I was so
transfixed by the sight of the mysterious covered lump in the road. It was only
an animal, that’s what the Government had told us. Why was everyone so afraid
to even try to move it? Bright yellow subtitles delivered broken chunks of what
the reporter was saying.

THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH WALES CLAIM THAT THIS IS THEIR WORST
NIGHTMARE REALISED. A SKIN HAS BEEN DISCOVERED IN THE BUSTLING CENTRE OF
SWANSEA TOWN. THE CREATURE WAS ATTACKED AND KILLED BY MR GWYLL POWELL, WHO IS
NOW BEING DETAINED BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES.

The subtitles must have been a few seconds behind the
pictures, because suddenly the lump in the road was gone, and a sobbing woman
was talking.

WE GO NOW TO MRS POWELL, WHO WITNESSED HER HUSBAND’S
ACTIONS.

In an effort to catch up with themselves, the yellow words
became a sudden scramble of letters. What replaced them was green text, part of
what the crying woman was telling the reporter. I watched the tears streak down
the lady’s pale face, and a shiver ran through me as the subtitles rolled on.

- AND I REMEMBER ITS SKIN. NO WONDER THE POLICE CALL THEM
SKINS. IT HANGS ON THE THING’S BONES LIKE IT’S READY TO FALL OFF. PALE AND
SEE-THROUGH, JUST LIKE A GHOST.

A loud clatter made me jump, and I nearly had a tray full of
tea and cakes spilled over me. Cariad’s mum gave me a panicked look as she set
down our snacks. She put a hand to my brow, and it took me a moment to remember
where I was. Everything was normal in that little tea shop. Everything was safe
there.

“Sorry I frightened you, Cherie love,” she said kindly. “Are
you feeling all right?”

“Yes,” I stammered. “Sorry, Mrs Thomas.”

“No matter then. You girls eat up and enjoy yourselves,” she
replied.

Cariad had barely looked up from her phone the whole time
her mother was there. Mrs Thomas flicked the lid of her daughter’s Yankees cap,
and Cariad spared her a cheeky half-grin before her mum walked away. Whatever
was happening on Cariad’s phone was far too important for her to stop and
really look at her mother. I wish they had looked at each other, thinking back
on that moment. I wish they had shared one last bright smile together.

If they had known that one of those faces would never see
the other again, I’m sure that they would have paid a little more attention.

[Wow! this one sounds great, I normally wouldn't consider myself as a horror fan but this one has me seriously thinking about adding it to my Want To Read Wishlist!]

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

K. C. Finn was born and raised in Cardiff, South Wales,
where her love for storytelling grew at a precociously young age. After
developing the medical condition M.E. / C.F.S., Kim turned to writing to escape
the pressures of disabled living, only to become hooked on the incredible world
of publishing.

As an author for Clean Teen Publishing and Crushing Hearts
and Black Butterfly Press, Kim spends most of her time locked in the writing
cave with an obscenely large mug of tea. When not writing, she can be found
studying for her MA in Linguistics, watching classic British comedy, or
concocting evil schemes in the secret laboratory in her attic.

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